The Care of Land Hermit Crabs
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  • Lots of detailed information
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The Care of Land Hermit Crabs
Philippe De Vosjoli
Manufacturer: Advanced Vivarium Systems
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ASIN: 1882770501

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At the root of the high mortality rate of captive hermit crabs is the failure to provide the proper environment and the lack of knowledge concerning their requirements. Did you know that hermit crabs carry their water supply sealed within their shells? Access to the right type of water is critical for refills. Did you know that hermit crabs may live more than 30 years? Find all the essential information you need to keep these strange and entertaining creatures thriving for their lifespan. 32 p. color.

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5 out of 5 stars Lots of detailed information.......2000-04-21

This little booklet (about 32 pages) gives you basic information on scientific names, anatomy, size, how long they live, habits, selecting land hermit crabs, designing enclosures, shells, water, food, molting, handling, breeding, diseases and other types of common land crabs.

I've had my hermit carbs for over a year, and after reading some information online, I realized that they require much more care than I have been giving them. It's amazing how much I didn't know about them before reading this book.

If you have hermit crabs, I suggest you research a bit online or through books like this one. If you were to buy any other type of pet, you would get information of the living conditions they need to survive; so learn more about your hermit crab. The more you know, the better.

5 out of 5 stars A Must have Book.......1999-11-02

Best Book on Hermit Crab care on the market.Another great addition to the outstanding AVS line. Philippe De Vosjoli presents current information , covering all aspects of Hermit Crab care.
Land Hermit Crabs
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    Land Hermit Crabs
    Philippe De Vosjoli
    Manufacturer: BowTie Press
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    ASIN: 188277082X
    Land Hermit Crabs
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Just What We Needed
    Land Hermit Crabs
    Paul J. Nash
    Manufacturer: TFH Publications
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    5 out of 5 stars Just What We Needed.......2000-03-10

    This little book is just what you need if you are just starting out with land hermit crabs. All aspects of their upkeep are covered from food to temperature. This book is perfect for the price!
    All about Land Hermit Crabs
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      Mervin F. Roberts
      Manufacturer: TFH Publications
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      Fun with Land Hermit Crabs: A Guide to Their Well-being and General Care
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        Fun with Land Hermit Crabs: A Guide to Their Well-being and General Care
        Daniele Scermino
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        Hermit crabs: Land hermit crab handbook
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          Hermit crabs: Land hermit crab handbook
          Martha Huelsenbeck
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          Hermit Crabs: Land Hermit Crab Handbook (The Shell Shanty)
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            Hermit Crabs: Land Hermit Crab Handbook (The Shell Shanty)
            Marth Huelsenbeck , and William Huelsenbeck
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            Land Hermit Crabs
            Average customer rating: 1 out of 5 stars
            • Unless you plan to kill your hermit crab
            • This book has not stood up to the test of time
            Land Hermit Crabs
            Neal Pronek
            Manufacturer: TFH Publications
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            ASIN: 0876669321

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            1 out of 5 stars Unless you plan to kill your hermit crab.......2007-06-05

            don't buy this book. This book is WOEFULLY outdated and shockingly inaccurate. Some of the suggestions in this book are nothing short of abuse. There are far better sources available today for proper care of your pet land hermit crab, most of them are available online and for free.

            1 out of 5 stars This book has not stood up to the test of time.......2005-08-05

            Every now and then I take out this book just to laugh at, and then pity the poor animals who may have suffered for the advice dispensed within the pages. For example, Mr. Pronek suggests that in order to "get your shell back from the crab" to simply "put him in the cold for a short time until he becomes dormant, then simply pull him out of the shell. When he wakes up, have a new shell for him." A photo of a crab in a ice tray is next to the text. This unusually cruel info is later contradicted, when he states that hermit crabs easily freeze to death because they are tropical animals.

            The really only good thing I can say about this book is that there are some nice pictures and photos. However, if you're trying to find a good book on hermit crabs, especially the various land species that are sold most commonly, I do suggest you try to find a book that was published more recently than 1982.
            Land Hermit Crabs in Nature and As Pets (Leisure and Learning Series)
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              Land Hermit Crabs in Nature and As Pets (Leisure and Learning Series)
              Edwin S. Iversen , and Renate H. Skinner
              Manufacturer: Windward Pub Co
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              Mechanisms of coexistence and competition between ants and land hermit crabs in a Bahamian archipelago [An article from: Acta Oecologica]
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                Mechanisms of coexistence and competition between ants and land hermit crabs in a Bahamian archipelago [An article from: Acta Oecologica]
                L.W. Morrison
                Manufacturer: Elsevier
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                This digital document is a journal article from Acta Oecologica, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                Ants and land crabs are common inhabitants of many coastal and insular communities across the tropics and subtropics, and yet direct evidence of interspecific competition between ants and land crabs has only recently been documented. I conducted a series of observational and manipulative experiments to further elucidate the mechanisms of competition, as well as coexistence, in these two groups in an archipelago of small Bahamian islands. Diel baiting trials demonstrated a significant temporal difference in foraging activity between the land hermit crab, Coenobita clypeatus (Herbst), and ant Brachymyrmex obscurior Forel, suggesting this is one mechanism underlying their coexistence on small oceanic islands. Reciprocal manipulative baiting experiments, in which one of a pair of species was removed from baits, documented that aggressive interspecific interactions underlie patterns of complementary distribution and temporal turnover at rich food resources. This was true for competition between hermit crabs and B. obscurior, and between B. obscurior and a second ant species, Dorymyrmex pyramicus Roger. Negative species associations at baits were found to be common throughout an archipelago of 69 small islands. A trade-off in exploitative and interference abilities may be a second mechanism allowing species coexistence on these small islands. Interspecific interactions such as competition and predation may occur commonly between ants and land crabs and have important consequences for the structure and function of tropical and subtropical insular ecosystems.

                The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report
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                The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report
                Timothy Ferris
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                Plenty of books try to explain the origin of the universe, but despite the ascendance of the Big Bang theory, numerous details of that theory remain in flux as new observations are made and new hypotheses formed (and then confirmed or rejected). Timothy Ferris's The Whole Shebang is an up-to-date account of the various mechanisms believed to have contributed to the universe as we now know it, from the Big Bang itself to inflation to superstrings. The Whole Shebang eschews mathematics and formulae and explains cosmological concepts in clear and enticing prose. If you need an update on the state of the universe, you'll find it here.

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                From the world-acclaimed author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way comes this delightfully engrossing, comprehensive, and comprehensible report on how science today envisions the universe as a whole.

                Timothy Ferris begins The Whole Shebang with a succinct account of how we have come to know what we know about the universe. Then he explains the meaning behind the exciting new developments that have put cosmology in the headlines -- including the discovery of planets orbiting stars other than our sun, glimpses through the Hubble Space Telescope of how the universe looked when it was only a fraction of its present age, and the detection of structure in relic radiation from the big bang that may hint at the mechanisms of genesis.

                Ferris provides a lucid, nontechnical overview of current research and a forecast of where cosmological theory is likely to go in the twenty-first century. A master analogist, he presents accessible explanations of relativity and quantum physics, "inflationary" models indicating that the universe is much larger than had been thought, and "string" theories that portray all matter as made of space.

                The centerpiece of The Whole Shebang is a visionary account of near-future science, in which light is shed on the possibility that our universe is one among many universes, each with different physical laws and differing prospects for the emergence of life.

                The Whole Shebang explores questions that have occurred to even casual readers who are curious about nature on the largest scales: What does it mean to say that the universe is "expanding," or that space is "curved"? How could there have been an "origin" of the universe; what happened "before"? Why is quantum uncertainty so puzzling to many scientists, and why do some regard it as one of the

                Written with the literary flair that earned Ferris the accolade "the greatest science writer in the world," The Whole Shebang interweaves probing scientific explication, lyrical descriptions, and finely honed profiles of the lives and personalities of the scientists and philosophers who have contributed to human understanding of the cosmos. Above all, it demonstrates that for all its abstractions, cosmology -- the scientific study of the universe as a whole -- is a very human activity whose theories and observations must ultimately answer to the human mind.

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                4 out of 5 stars Is Omega 1?.......2007-01-06

                This is a book on cosmology: the study of the universe, the speculation on its direction and future, what we know and how we know it. Ferris gives us helpful analogies. Well written, good style. Journey through this mind warp; you will shake your head in amazement.

                Tim starts with the early thinkers: Aristotle and Eudoxus. He then moves to the obvious: the big bang, origins and creation. He discusses: a collapsing universe, redshifts, distances and ages of stars--the different methods of measuring, shape and makeup of galaxies and the universe, structure of space, and black holes. He ends with prose on the future, the possibility of e.t. life, and God.

                Could there be multiple universes or infinite regression? What is dark matter?--what may be 99% of the rest of the universe. Can inflation change rate of expansion? Is the universe isotropic? Enter the weirdness of quantum physics. There are many paradoxes. Tim was doing good until he brought in the theory of cosmic evolution, especially organic. He does caution to what evolution means.

                He is an evolutionist--stuck in his faith (which he admits to); and this leads to materialism, relativism and humanism. He will eventually turn full circle--to creation. Timothy finds himself in the same trap he tries to build for creationists. A big mistake is made in thinking that religion and science are not compatible. "The secular explanation also assumes that stars and galaxies can form from regions of high density. But this has never been observed. No galaxy has ever been observed to form at all." What of the second law of thermodynamics? Some knowledge will be left to the unknown--as secrets.

                "The big bang today relies on a growing number of hypothetical entities, things that we have never observed--inflation, dark matter and dark energy are the most prominent examples. Without them, there would be a fatal contradiction between the observations made by astronomers and the predictions of the big bang theory. In no other field of physics would this continual recourse to new hypothetical objects be accepted as a way of bridging the gap between theory and observation. It would, at the least, raise serious questions about the validity of the underlying theory." [...]

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                Scott

                4 out of 5 stars good overview.......2006-09-19

                A very good overview of the current state of cosmology (even if now almost a decade old). The author though puts his philosphy into a number of parts of the book - which can be quite frustrating at times (hence 4 stars and not 5). If you can walk through these or are of similar mindset this book is a very good place to start your education into cosmolgy. It has a very good index, glossary of terms and references at the back of the book, it is just a shame did not also include a list of books to read in short section at the end - rather than having to go through the references. But on the whole recommended.

                5 out of 5 stars one of the best cosmology books I've ever read.......2005-06-14

                Every year I read about 5 books about cosmology and physics. So I know what I'm saying: this book really is great.

                Sure, it's about 8 years old, too old in cosmology. In particular, the discovery that the universe is accelerating has changed a lot of the questions that cosmologists contemplate. But even if you read a book that was published yesterday, it'll be out of date next month. So you have to either hang out in the physics lounge at Princeton, or accept that you're gonna be behind a bit. As it goes, I think that this book is so good that it's certainly worth reading even though it's a bit old.

                I especially recommend this book if it will be your first book on cosmology.

                I bought it because of the discussion of the structure in the universe: superclusters of galaxies, and beyond them to the sheets and bubbles that seem to be the largest structures in the universe. I'd been curious about these things, and never read a good account of them until this book. He covered it all, including reviewing our local intergalactic neighborhood, the Virgo cluster and supercluster, and the mysterious Great Attractor. He discussed the formations of galaxies and stars and planetary systems, including our own solar system. Not since Sagan's "Cosmos" had I read such an enjoyable discussion of this topic--the one that fascinated me so much as a child.

                That's high praise.

                But I was also surprised by how well other things in cosmology were explained. Of course the question of the geometry of the universe was well explained; even better, the discussions of inflation and Linde's chaotic inlation and multiverse were great. The issue of dark matter was very well covered. Relativity was explained well enough, and the world of quantum physics was explored enough to make the points Ferris wanted to make. (He didn't explain Smolin's black hole based multiverse, probably because it's a lot more speculative than Linde's inflationary multiverse.)

                Every pop science writer has to simplify things, and at some point offer explanations that someone will consider inadequate. I thought his discussion of the principles of life on earth and the possibilities of extraterrestrial life were great, but they were probably a bit too brief for someone completely unfamiliar with the topic. I think a first-time reader would not understand several points in his description of quantum theory. But hey, when you're sure you don't understand quantum theory, that's evidently about as close as you'll ever get.

                The same goes for his discussion of the anthropic principle and God. Now, actually I basically agree with Ferris' worldview (strong agnosticism), and I think his discussion of it was spot-on. But if I had to write it, I would have gone a bit more slowly, explaining things in a bit more detail. You can find among these reviewers some who criticize Ferris for saying that cosmology doesn't prove God's existence. Well, it doesn't. Ferris also explained that it doesn't disprove God's existence. But Ferris doesn't flatter theists as much as some other writers in the field.

                All the same, the general discussion about the universe was great.

                Incidently, if you're primarily interested in quantum physics rather than cosmology in particular, I recommend Brian Greene's "The Elegant Universe." Not so well-written, but in greater depth is Nick Herbert's "Quantum Reality." If you're primarily interested in multiple universes, look at Smolin's "Life of the Cosmos" but especially at Guth's "The Inflationary Universe." And if you're interested in the end of the universe, I suggest Davies' "Last Three Minutes." And finally, although it's a bit dated in some respects, the best exploration of the theological implications of cosmology (which bothered some reviewers of this book so much) remains Paul Davies' "God and the New Physics."

                If you haven't read about cosmology yet, get one of these books and enjoy it. Regardless of which one you choose, scientific cosmology is one of the most fascinating, mind and soul expanding topics in the world.

                4 out of 5 stars The Book of the UNIVERSE.......2003-06-28

                Now there is a plenty of the books of the authors of every possible calibers from various schools and predecessors. All of them are good in own way.

                However offered book is laborious work of the author giving to generalize and to inform to us in the form the unique summary of a basis cosmology.

                And so it is time to begin to understand with this cosmology. Please, take and read this book. It will be useful both schoolboy, and student, and pensioner.

                5 out of 5 stars A Brilliant Book on our Universe.......2003-06-07

                This is the most coherent (and in depth) book on the cosmos I have ever read. I have numerous books on "the universe", gravity, astrophysics, physics, etc, but this book is FAR and AWAY the most lucid thing I have ever read on the topic. Generally I like to skip around to certain sections of interest to me but with this book, the WHOLE THING is incredibly fascinating. I also bought the Audio Version (which he reads himself) and it is very well read. If you want to know the fascinating structure and workings of the Universe you live in, THIS IS THE BOOK. I think it is a shame that most people go through their whole lives not knowing how cool this Universe really is. His discussion of Gravity and "the SHAPE of space" is a perfect example. Just read it and you will find out. Things are not always what they seem. An amazing book!
                Cosmic Dispatches: The New York Times Reports on Astronomy and Cosmology
                Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
                • Embark on the ultimate voyage of cosmic discovery!
                • Recent scientific discoveries as seen by the Times
                Cosmic Dispatches: The New York Times Reports on Astronomy and Cosmology

                Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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                The scientists seeking to unravel the mysteries of the universe are among the most imaginative and provocative explorers of our time. Like the geographic explorers of earlier centuries, they venture into uncharted spaces, come upon new worlds, expand the knowable, and challenge thinking about the place of humans in all things. Collected here are the most exciting moments of recent astronomical explorations, presented by the award-winning science reporters of the New York Times. Recent leaps in technology have allowed astronomers to peer deeply into the universe and to bring into focus fascinating and unsuspected phenomena. Cosmic Dispatches conveys in thrilling detail the meaning and significance of what scientists have been learning about our universe. B/W photographs, diagrams.

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                5 out of 5 stars Embark on the ultimate voyage of cosmic discovery!.......2002-03-17

                Cosmic Dispatches: Reports On Astronomy And Cosmology by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist John Noble Wilford is a guide to the very latest findings of astronomy and cosmology. The paperback edition contains six new essays on the discovery of new multiplanet systems and the question of time before the Big Bang. Among the vast compendium of other scientific issues covered in assorted essays are the future of exploration on Mars, the possibility of life on other planets, and the true age of the Universe. Cosmic Dispatches is a wondrous, informative, and mind-expanding book, highly recommended for students of astronomy and the non-specialist general reader ready to embark on the ultimate voyage of cosmic discovery!

                4 out of 5 stars Recent scientific discoveries as seen by the Times.......2002-02-01

                This is something of a history of recent astronomy as related in the Times. The oldest story is Walter Sullivan's report on the discovery of the cosmic background radiation in 1965. Most of the others, though, are from the eighties and nineties. The coverage is divided into sections: new telescopes and new technology, planetary exploration, potential life on Mars, extrasolar planets, the life of stars, black holes, missing mass, the new cosmology, the age of the universe, the fate of the universe, looking for ET, and theories of everything. Each section has a half-dozen or so breaking stories on related topics, which gives the text a greater sense of immediacy than the usual explanatory text.

                Not only are these good stories in their own right, but they're also excellent examples of good science writing. (One of the physicists involved with the discovery of the CMBR even told Sullivan that he didn't understand the significance of his finding until he read his article.) The only weaknesses are the diagrams, which sometimes verge on being too small to read, and the episodic nature of the text, with each article being relatively self-contained, rather than being one chapter in an explanatory book. But these are minor complaints about an overall excellent book.
                McDaniel Report: On the Failure of Executive, Congressional, and Scientific Responsibility in Investigating Possible Evidence of Artificial Structures on the Surface
                Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                • McDaniel takes NASA's uneducated "debunking" to task
                • great reading and of high scientific value
                McDaniel Report: On the Failure of Executive, Congressional, and Scientific Responsibility in Investigating Possible Evidence of Artificial Structures on the Surface
                Stanley McDaniel
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                5 out of 5 stars McDaniel takes NASA's uneducated "debunking" to task.......2000-06-27

                Stanley McDaniel accomplishes a lot in "The McDaniel Report," effectively dissecting NASA's tired party line that the alleged "Face on Mars" is a "trick of light and shadow." If this was all he accomplished, this would still be an important book. But he goes much deeper, challenging mainstream science on epistemilogical grounds and taking officialdom to task for knowingly (?) circulating bogus claims about the Face and other anomalous formations on Mars. "The McDaniel Report" reveals a NASA saturated in its own self-importance, and deals a weighty blow to prevailing SETI dogma.

                Carl Sagan has said that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." Well, here it is. If extraterrestrial ruins on Mars bother you, by all means keep away from "The McDaniel Report."

                5 out of 5 stars great reading and of high scientific value.......1999-10-11

                This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the (serious) research of the anomalies on Mars, criticaster or "believer". Concise, detailed, well-documented and with lots of references. A must-have and certainly of high scientific value. Professor McDaniel has done an outstanding job with this report.
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                5 out of 5 stars Excellent Compact Biography for Young Readers.......2002-07-20

                Having been a fan of Edwin Hubble since I first learned of him in high school in the early Fifties and read his classic work, The Realm of the Nebulae, while in college, I have collected everything about him I could find. He died suddenly during my senior year in high school and I was shocked and saddened to learn of it in the January, 1954 issue of Sky & Telescope magazine. I had long hoped a biography would be forthcoming but , except for a few brief ones in a few journals, no full length treatment was produced. I talked to Dr. Charles A. Whitney once about one he was to write which he told me was on hold but it never was completed. The first book with much biographical material was in a novel entitled Hubble Time published in 1987 which was about a fictional granddaughter. There is much biographical material in it about Hubble, however. One of its highlights is the publication of an essay about Hubble by Aldous Huxley which, according to the novel, had never been published. I well recall having read this very essay in the early Fifties! I had tried to find it several times since but could find no reference to it and it has been a great mystery where I read it. So, great was my surprise to find it in Hubble Time.

                Finally, in 1989, a biography was published in Russia by two Russian scientists followed by Gale Christiansons excellent biography in 1995, both books long overdue. I also have copies of journals containing many of Hubble's scientific papers, all his books and a copy of his doctoral thesis. Now several volumes for young people have been written of which Mary Virginia Fox' is one. It is an excellent overview of his life and work for young people which can easily be read in one sitting and contains some photographs which I had not previously seen. It is good that such an important American astronomer, whose discoveries have been called "the most significant contributions to cosmology since Copernicus" and of whom Stephen Hawking has said "changed the concept of the universe more profoundly than anyone else", should be made known to a young generation. And Hubble's legacy continues in the profound new findings being produced with the great space telescope that appropriatly bears his name.

                I would have loved to have had this excellent little book during my own early years.
                Mars: The NASA Mission Reports Vol 2: Apogee Books Space Series 44 (Apogee Books Space Series)
                Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
                • We're on Mars - Now what?
                • GOT TO GET THIS ONE
                • A fine collection of Mars papers
                Mars: The NASA Mission Reports Vol 2: Apogee Books Space Series 44 (Apogee Books Space Series)

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                ASIN: 1894959051

                Book Description

                The exploration of Mars is brought up to date with this collection of the latest results from the Mars Exploration Rovers, and the Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey missions.

                Customer Reviews:

                3 out of 5 stars We're on Mars - Now what?.......2006-06-16

                Mars: The NASA Mission Reports Vol 2 is another welcome addition to any die-hard Mars lover's library. The format is the same for almost all Apogee Mission Reports - fact sheets and press kits from NASA. The data and the color inserts do the book justice.

                On the downside, the status reports concerning the Mars Exploration Rovers (MERs) get very tiring to read. Similar to 'keep-alive' packets sent by idle computers on the Internet, the reports give frequent updates to the status of the rovers - while sometimes interesting, its very hard to see 'big-picture' science without more analysis (something that wouldn't be in a mission press kit or an Apogee Mission Report book).

                The inclusion of a DVD was another surprise - since the data sent back by the two MERs is hefty, more storage space was needed. The DVD might be worth the cost of the book, but I love those introductory mission press kits stating the statistics of the machines and the overview of its mission...

                Again, if you have a Mars Library started, add this to your collection!

                5 out of 5 stars GOT TO GET THIS ONE.......2004-09-18

                My thanks to Robert Zubrin for his review. Because of the Von Braun video lecture, I'm going to order this fine Apogee title straight away. By the way, thanks to Mr. Zubrin and his colleagues for everything they've done to push the cause of Man On Mars. It amazes me that about once a decade, mankind can find hundreds of billions of dollars to fight wars, yet will not spend much more on our important future in the new frontier.

                Here's hoping that a consortium of Paul Allen-type people in future can get us to our sister world. If we relied solely on taxpayer funded missions it would take decades. And I'm not getting any younger.

                Thanks again, Mr. Zubrin.

                5 out of 5 stars A fine collection of Mars papers.......2004-08-05

                Mars NASA Mission Reports Volume 2
                Review by Robert Zubrin, President Mars Society

                Once again the team at Apogee Books have produced a well timed book about the recent and current Mars Missions. Following on from their best selling Mars NASA Mission Reports Volume One, which included all missions up to and including the failed Polar Lander and Climate Observer missions of 1999 the new Volume continues the more successful missions since that dark year including data transmitted back from the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity.

                It is possible to find much of the contents of the book on the NASA websites, however this book puts everything into one easy to use reference and easy to carry paper database. As usual the book includes a DVD which in this case is a double sided disc including many videos, photographs, interviews with the major JPL team managers and much more. I found one question asked of Steve Squyres particularly interesting; when asked by Godwin what he could do that the rover could not if he was able to stand at Meridiani Planum; his answer...well the answer was poignant, you be the judge. Another interesting item from the vaults is a rare 1975 video lecture by Von Braun about Humans to Mars. Where do they find this stuff?

                In all a fine addition to any Mars collection.
                Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Summary Science Report, Two-Volume Set (Vol I: Astronomy, Earth Atmosphere & Gravity Field, Life Sciences, & Materials Process. Vol II: Earth Observations & Photography)
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                    Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 1980's, Volume 2: Reports of the Panels (Astronomy & Astrophysics for the Nineteen Eighties)
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                      Astronomy and Astrophysics for the Nineteen Eighties : Reports of the Astronomy Survey Committee (Vol. 1: 1982)
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                        Calendars, Symbols and Orientations: Legacies of Astronomy in Culture (Uppsala Astronomical Observatory Report, 59)
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                          Calendars, Symbols and Orientations: Legacies of Astronomy in Culture (Uppsala Astronomical Observatory Report, 59)
                          Mary Blomberg , Peter E. Blomberg , and Goran Henriksson
                          Manufacturer: Ocarina Books
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                          This collection of twenty-four papers examines the numerous ways in which the stars influenced our ancestors' view of the world. The papers are divided into five categories: Archaeoastronomical theory; Calendars in artefacts, folklore, and literature; History and iconography of the constellations; Astronomy in art, mythology, and literature; and Orientations and their interpretations. From Stonehenge and Ramesside star clocks to the use of ropes in astronomy, and even an Orion-based pregnancy calendar, this volume covers a vast array of periods and places. The papers were presented at the ninth annual conference of the Société Européenne pour l'Astronomie dans la Culture (SEAC) in Stockholm, 2001

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